Splitsville for HL and Sotheby's.Houlihan Lawrence Inc., the market leader in luxury real estate in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties, has decided to terminate its 28-year affiliation with Sotheby's International Realty Sotheby’s International Realty, founded in 1976, is a luxury real estate network that offers a collection of luxury homes, estates and properties for sale throughout the world. , Inc. Sotheby's International Realty was recently sold by the venerable auction house to Cendant Corporation, headquartered in New Jersey. Cendant is now bringing to Sotheby's the franchise model of its mass-market brands such as Century 21. "When Sotheby's real estate division severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. its direct connection to the upscale auction house, it lost its relevance to us as a strategic partner," stated Nancy Seaman SEAMAN. A sailor; a mariner; one whose business is navigation. 2 Boulay Paty, Dr. Com. 232; Code de Commerce art. 262; Laws of Oleron, art. 7; Laws of Wishuy, art. 19. The term seamen, in it most enlarged sense, includes the captain a well as other persons of the crew; in a more confined , Chairman of Houlihan Lawrence. "We believe Sotheby's new mass-market franchise strategy is conflicting and incompatible with the heritage of Houlihan Lawrence. "Expanding our Luxury Country Properties division will allow us to continue to deliver our intensely personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. carriage-trade service to our discerning dis·cern·ing adj. Exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; perceptive. dis·cern  ing·ly adv. luxury real estate clientele and to fuel our
future growth."
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